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2018-02-17T23:30:21.000000000-05:00
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine attorney Jude Sabio says he hasn't been home for a year, steers clear of public events and is forever looking over his shoulder after accusing President Rodrigo Duterte of crimes against humanity.

2018-02-17T22:07:33.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - U.S.-based Russian news outlet RIA Global LLC has registered as a foreign agent with the U.S. Justice Department, the fourth Russian-linked media company to do so since November under pressure from the U.S. government.

2018-02-17T21:13:27.000000000-05:00
MUNICH (Reuters) - U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that, despite denials, public reports showed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons, and added that it was time for the international community to hold the Syrian government to account.

2018-02-17T20:07:20.000000000-05:00
SANTIAGO JAMILTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) - At least 13 people on the ground, including three children, were killed when a Mexican military helicopter carrying top officials surveying damage from an earthquake crashed in a small town in the southern state of Oaxaca, authorities said on Saturday.

2018-02-17T18:48:05.000000000-05:00
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's approval rating has fallen below 50 percent to its lowest level since October last year, a poll showed on Sunday, as the government pushes ahead with plans to shake up France's costly civil service.

2018-02-17T18:25:38.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian propaganda arm oversaw a criminal and espionage conspiracy to tamper in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to support Donald Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton, said an indictment released on Friday that revealed more details than previously known about Moscow's...

2018-02-17T18:22:32.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The key witness in the case of a Chilean bishop accused of covering sexual abuse said on Saturday he gave "eye opening" testimony to a papally mandated investigator and hoped it would lead to the truth.

2018-02-17T16:51:16.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - - Britain, the United States and France want the United Nations Security Council to condemn Iran for failing to stop its ballistic missiles from falling into the hands of Yemen’s Houthi group and commit to take action over the sanctions violations, according to a draft resolution seen...

2018-02-17T15:22:05.000000000-05:00
SOFIA (Reuters) - Hundreds of far-right extremists marched through the center of Sofia on Saturday to honor a Bulgarian general who led a pro-Nazi organization in the 1930s and 1940s.

2018-02-17T14:51:46.000000000-05:00
MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested 25 people under a state of emergency, opposition legislators said on Saturday, after thousands of protesters gathered a day earlier to call for the detention of the president and release of opposition leaders.

Business Today

2018-02-17T16:12:26.000000000+00:00
Even the incumbent PNB chief Sunil Mehta knew about funds being
sanctioned to Gitanjali Group as he was the general manager of Allahabad
Bank at the time I presented my dissent note, Dubey said.

2018-02-17T16:03:30.000000000+00:00
The bank branch, which is in the centre of one of the biggest financial
scams of the country, was searched by the agency, the sources said,
adding that "incriminating documents" related to the case were
recovered.

2018-02-16T16:46:47.000000000+00:00
The Ministry of Railway has directed its zones to discontinue pasting
reservation charts on reserved coaches of all trains at A1, A and B
category stations as a pilot project for six months from March 1

2018-02-16T15:35:42.000000000+00:00
The Reserve Bank of India's Deputy Governor SS Mundra, who retired last
year, was the first to speak publically about the possible cracks in the
banks payment infrastructure.

2018-02-16T13:41:32.000000000+00:00
The Supreme Court verdict on Cauvery water dispute is out, and it is
Karnataka that appears to have won the final round of legal battle. It has been at loggerheads with Tamil Nadu for their 'due share' of Cauvery river.

Sources

Financial Express

2018-02-18T00:13:52.000000000+05:30
Lifaka, who is the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Cameroon, also thanked the CPA India Region for its support that led to her election as the association's chairperson last year.

2018-02-17T23:40:52.000000000+05:30
The recent episode raises question mark on the efficiency of the SWIFT network as how secure it is. The PNB fraud pertains to issuance of fake Letters of Understanding (LoUs) to companies associated with billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi by errant PNB employees which enabled these companies to rais...

2018-02-17T23:10:12.000000000+05:30
The state-owned PNB has detected a USD 1.77 billion (about Rs 11,400 crore) scam where billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi allegedly acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking (LoUs) from the Brady House branch of the bank in south Mumbai to secure overseas credit from other lenders.

2018-02-17T22:55:54.000000000+05:30
A bench of justices R M Borde and R G Ketkar yesterday ordered the setting up of a three-member independent committee, headed by a retired high court judge, to probe the December 29 fire at 1 Above and Mojos Bistro roof-top restaurants at the Kamala Mills compound.

2018-02-17T22:45:14.000000000+05:30
The apex body of bankers today met here to discuss the Rs 11,400-crore scam at Punjab National Bank allegedly caused by the absconding diamond trader Nirav Modi and a clutch of his family-run companies.

Sources

The Times of India

2018-02-17T13:19:40.000000000+00:00
As of March 2017, banks had extended loans and guarantees worth Rs 11,400 crore to companies tied to billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi, the tax department said in a note seen by news agency Reuters.

2018-02-17T12:19:33.000000000+00:00
The US Commerce Department on Friday recommended imposing heavy tariffs on China and other countries to counter a global glut in steel and aluminum, laying out an array of possible options in a report to President Donald Trump.

2018-02-17T09:48:47.000000000+00:00
The International Monetary Fund was going to be "attentive" to the consequences of the reform, which notably includes a sharply lower corporate tax rate, she told French radio station France Inter.

2018-02-17T07:03:08.000000000+00:00
The revised guidelines of full KYC for PPIs are throwing us in a very challenging situation since 90% of the volumes that we were generating was mainly from the minimum KYC PPIs.

2018-02-17T02:23:17.000000000+00:00
​​With Friday's suspensions, the number of employees suspended in the alleged fraud by Nirav Modi has risen to 18, including 10 who faced action last month. The two suspended general managers were earlier in Mumbai, sources told TOI.